The Brookhaven leader., 1887-03-24
MISCELLANEOUS.

A wHALE-the third within two weeks
has been captured off Long Island.
FIVE persons were injured more or less
| severely by the wrecking of a construc
ton train near Palestine Tex, the other
day.
COUNTY CLERK WULFF, of Chicago has,
upon the advice of his attorney, refused to
enter upon the records the marriage license
returned by Justice Englehart, who per-
| formed the proxy marriage ceremony Of
August Spies and Miss Nina Van Zandt.
A COLLISION occurred recently on the Au-
burn branch of the New York Central near
Geneva N. Y. Several persons were in
jured but no one was killed.
WILLIAM RoMP was blown to atoms re-
Gently at fremont, Pa. He was sitting on
a keg of gun powder smoking when the &C
cident occurred.
THE engine and tender of the east bound
morning train on the Marietta, Columbus q
Northern railroad went through the Vim
cent trestle, near Marietta, o., on the 10th.
Lyle Vincent and Albert Boothby, engineer
and fireman, were killed, and John Mccoy
and William Stewart, conductor and brake
man, were badly scalded, while Michael
Early, passenger, had his left leg ma she'd
ROBERT FURNACE and Jesse Jennings,
track about mile from Nokomis, H., in a
wagon the other evening were struck by a
train and instantly killed.
| A DISPATCH from Orleans, Mass, states
that tug rescued two of the men who
were seen clinging to the foretop mast and
bowsprit of the schooner j. II. Eels, ashore
| off Nausett. The rest of the crew were
| drowned.
THE schedule in the assignment of Mar
shall, Lefferts & Co., of New York, show
liabilities, $l75, S25; contingent liabilities,
$36 705; nominal assets, $l25, ,9OS; actual as
sets, $6S.257.
THE Italian Government has recalled
| Gene, the commander of the Italians at
Massowah, disappearing his course in CIV
| ing the Ably yssinians 900 rifles in exchange
for the captives in the hands of Kasaloula.
ARRESTS continue at st. Petersburg.
Among those taken into custody are forty
eight nihilists. The police authorities at
st. Petersburg desire the Gar to remain at
Gatschlna.
AN outbreak of striking miners being
feared, extra troops were sent to Mons and
Soignes, Belgium.
THE south bound passenger train on the
Elmira Cortland q Northern railroad, con-
sisting of an engine and three cars, was
wrecked on the 10th near Elmira, N. Y.
About fifteen persons were more or less in
jured The accidentwas caused by aspread-
ing rail.
FIVE of the Chicago boodlers have been
indicted
JOHN E. STEITEs, charged with attempt
ing to place dynamite bomb on the track
of the Sutter street cable line, San Fran
cisco, was found guilty on the 10th. Sen
tence deferred.
A GUARD has been set over the vault in
which Mr.. Beecher's remains were de-
posted.
THE citizens of Tampa, Fla, deny the
charges made by the New York Labor
Union regarding the expulsion of Cuban
outlaws.
THE Canadian Government has decided to
send an exploratory expedition to Hud-
it is navigable or not. ...
HALF Of the business part of Blackville,
s. c.. was destroyed by fire the other day;
loss, 100000.
CHARLES F. FREEMAN, the Adventist, who
horribly butchered his daughter during an
insane religious spell at Pocasset, Mass, in
1888, has been discharged from the insane
asylum reported cured.
Two men were fatally and two seriously
injured in mine near Wilkesbarre, Pa,
recently by an explosion Of gas.
BY an explosion of dynamite at the water
works near Bridgeport, Conn, the other
day two men were killed and third badly
hurt.